In 1954, many schools in the United States were racially segregated. This was made legal by Plessy vs. Ferguson, which stated that segregated schools were constitutional, as long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other. So NAACP lawyers made lawsuits on behalf of black children and their families in several states, looking for court orders to get school districts to let black and white students attend the same public schools. One of these lawsuits, Brown vs. Board of Education, was filed against the Topeka, Kansas’s Board of Education by representative and plaintiff Oliver Brown.
Brown himself had a child who was denied access to Topeka’s white public schools. Brown claimed that the city's racial segregation violated the
Brown himself had a child who was denied access to Topeka’s white public schools. Brown claimed that the city's racial segregation violated the